Monthly Archives: May 2016

IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2016)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability

Phoenix, AZ. October 9 – 11, 2016

http://ieee.org/sustech

Sustainability: the pursuit of environmentally sound development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future!

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The 4th Annual IEEE Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2016) Conference is designed to explore the development and application of science, engineering and technology in achieving a sustainable lifestyle for humanity. It brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and scholars from multiple disciplines to hold a dialogue on environmental issues and collaborate on ideas to develop and utilize innovative tools and intelligent systems to address them. The attendees are expected to be exposed to the tools, connections and proactive solutions to take their sustainability programs to the next level.

SusTech 2016 conference will feature technical papers, posters and workshops. A number of prominent experts will be giving keynotes and invited talks. Best Posters and Papers in the conference will be eligible for an award. Full papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Papers accepted in the conference proceedings and presented during the conference will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore and other Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) databases.

Proposals are solicited for both oral and poster presentations from industry, government and academia (including students) covering relevant research, technologies, methodologies, tools and case studies. Topics with policy implications are also welcome. Poster presentations this year will be limited to students.

Topics of Interest

  • Internet of Things – IOT (e.g.: sensors, computing, control, communication, storage and drive electronics targeted for IOT applications, medical electronics, drones)

  • Smart Grid (e.g. communication, control, power electronics, energy storage, demand control and response)
  • eWaste (e.g. reduction, conversion, disposal, recycling, reuse, harvesting, managing product lifecycle)
  • Renewable Energy (e.g. solar, wind, tidal, fuel cells, energy harvesting, nuclear, thermal, power distribution)
  • Water (e.g. Sourcing & distribution, conservation, harvesting, waste disposal, reusage)
  • Electronics (e.g. components and systems, sustainable manufacturing, automotive and industrial applications)

  • Energy Efficiency (e.g. sensing and measurement, energy saving, auto electrification & fuel economy, data centers)

  • Transportation (e.g. electric & autonomous vehicles, aviation, motors, drive controls, batteries)

  • Societal Implications of Technology (e.g. engineering of sustainable solutions, implementation challenges for sustainable technologies, Smart Cities, ethics and professional responsibility, risk management, public policy)

Instructions to Authors: Submit in PDF form, an up to two page abstract of the poster or oral presentation in via the SusTech 2016 website. For details including information for authors, please visit the conference website at http://sites.ieee.org/sustech/. Select Authors tab and follow the instructions there.

 

Key Dates

June 3, 2016

Submission deadline for paper and poster abstracts.

June 30, 2016

Notification of acceptance.

August 15, 2016

Final manuscript submission deadline.

SusTech 2016 General Chair: Gopi Krishnan ([email protected])

SusTech 2016 Program Chair: Vivek Gupta ([email protected])

SusTech 2016 Program Co-Chair: Ed Perkins ([email protected])

SusTech 2016 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Phoenix and Oregon Sections, IEEE Region 6 and IEEE-USA, with IEEE SSIT.

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IEEE R8 SAC Student Paper Contest 2016

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This year’s IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest awards were held at Limassol Cyprus during Melecon 2016. From the original 29 submissions, the five finalists were Marko Bizjak from Slovenia , Serban Mihalache from Romania, Laszlo Pinter from Hungary , A.J. van den Biggelaar from the Netherlands and Stefan Wunsch from Germany.
After the oral presentation of the finalists, together with the marks given originally for the paper, the jury members chose the paper “Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms Using Linear Discriminant Analysis” by Stefan Wunsch from the University of Karlsruhe as the winner.
Congratulations to Stefan, to the other finalists, and also to all the participants in the contest.

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Finalists and jury members

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Region 8 Director, Jury Members and Finalists at the award ceremony.

Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award 2016 Winners

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We are proud to present this year’s winners of the Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award:

  • Brigitte Lanz (Finland Young Professionals Affinity Group)
  • Ahmed Shalaby (Egypt Young Professionals Affinity Group)

For their continuous hard work, dedication and enthusiasm to promoting the Young Professionals mission and vision, and that of IEEE at large. Our biggest congratulations to you!

Volunteer award winners 2016
We would also like to congratulate all the other nominees! It is amazing to have to many dedicated volunteers in all parts of our Region! You are all doing a great work with your local groups, and we want to encourage you to keep it up; you are all vital to the success of Young Professionals!

Best of luck to everyone and your teams with your YP plans for this year! And don’t forget, we are here if you need any help or support!

IEEE Young Entrepreneurs Day, University of Greenwich

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IEEE Young Entrepreneurs Day, University of Greenwich

This public open day event focuses on the role that the UK and Ireland Section of the IEEE can play in supporting and preparing students and young professionals for facing the emerging challenges in work and employment opportunities.

  • Workshops and talks by invited experts from business and industry sectors.
  • Successful professionals to share their advice and experiences.
  • Professional advice and resources on business and start-ups, career development, technology jobs.
  • Introduction to IEEE services for students and young professional members

Don’t miss out on this amazing line up where you can meet some of the biggest names in tech, as well as enhance your knowledge, skills and network with industry professionals.

Registration and Programme: https://goo.gl/CLSNQ9

Full Programme available: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4qTNvaOMM0ySWljSnBBYzZKTWs

Date: Saturday 11th if June 2016

Registration: From 09:00 room QA177

Venue: University of Greenwich, London SE109LS

Young professionals event at RTSI 2016

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Dear YP,

this is a friendly reminder related to the forthcoming Young professionals (YP) event,
jointly organized by IEEE Italy section and University of
Bologna within the “2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society
and Industry (RTSI 2016)“.
This is a forum which is running at University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy on 7-9 Sept
2016 (http://rtsi16.apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/RTSI2016/).

The YP event is a “Poster and Demo Session”
(http://rtsi16.apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/RTSI2016/YPEvent) that is focused
on YP and will be mainly devoted to  show innovative prototype implementations,
systems and technologies.
Demos can be considered as real, practical, and interactive proof of the
presenters’ research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the
goal of offering YP the opportunity to discuss systems, applications,
prototypes, or proofs-of-concept with Senior researchers and people from
industry.

All demo submissions will be automatically subscribed to the “YP Demo
competition“. An evaluation committee will view and score posters/demos and
select:

  • 1 for Best Demo Award. Demos will be primarily judged on originality,
    execution, and illustration of the core research ideas. The 500 € prize is
    sponsored by the IEEE Italy Section.
  • 10 to receive 10 NUCLEO systems (provided by STmicroelectronics) containing the STM32F401 development board,
    ST Bluetooth Low Energy radio expansion board, ST MEMs Inertial and Environmental
    sensors board, and ST omnidirectional microphone board.
  • 1 internship opportunity at STmicroelectronics’s site in Agrate, Italy,
    based on the Company’s assessment of the Young Professional’s talents and motivations to benefit from, and contribute to, the internship offering.

The deadline to submit proposals is May 15, 2016. If you are considering to
submit a contribution, send an email to [email protected]

Thank you
Best regards
Ferdinando

Young professionals event at RTSI 2016

Scoring Criteria

 in Mind the Gap!

The scoring criteria will be divided into two main parts:

  • Part I: proposal form and structure
  • Part II: project idea, potential influence in the society where idea is implemented, and possible reach

The winners will be determined by the judges ranking of the teams. This ranking will be based on the points that judges gave to the teams. Also judges can make extra comments regarding project efficacy. Scorecards are also designed to provide feedback to the competitors in order to improve their project realization.

 

Part I: Proposal form and structure scoring

  • Description of challenges (How well challenges that the project can encounter are described)
  • Milestones (How well they have defined milestones for project)
  • Budget (Budget estimation, project cost)
  • Gantt chart

 

Part II: Project scoring

  • Project idea (How well the project idea is described and developed)
  • Project’s impact on younger generations (The project’s impact on its target audience)
  • Project’s impact on older generations (The project’s impact on its target audience)
  • Overall Assessment of the written plan (Is the plan clear and compelling?) 

IEEE R8 Student & Young Professional Congress 2016 Regensburg

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The IEEE R8 Student and Young Professional Congress (SYP Congress) is an event that takes place every two years in the IEEE Region 8. It gathers both student and young professional members from all Sections in the Region and it provides an opportunity to network and get to know over four hundred people from all over the world.

The 2016 version of the Congress will be hosted by the IEEE Student Branches Regensburg and Passau in Regensburg, Germany from the 17th till the 21st of August. The participants will have the opportunity to develop their technical and soft skills in a wide variety of workshops and lectures from local companies and global players and they deal with interesting topics in diverse technical fields, meet other IEEE members, exchange ideas and experiences. At the same time, we will introduce the participants to OTH Regensburg, the city of Regensburg, companies and laboratories in and around our city and the bavarian way of life.

Over four hundred students and young professionals from Africa, Europe and Middle East will create an incredible atmosphere – guaranteed! So take part, make new friends or meet old ones, learn about everything IEEE, network with high-tech companies and exchange ideas with like-minded people from all over Region 8.

To register please check out the SYP’s website:

https://www.syp-regensburg.de/about.html 

and check out the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/syp2016/?fref=ts

The full registration fee includes accommodation and meals during the official dates of the congress (17 – 21 August 2016).12244771_1152239268150169_8453132503522449451_o
Registration fee with accommodation: 375 Euro
Registration fee without accommodation: 300 Euro

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 2016 abstract due date extended to 16 May

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Dear Students,

The new extended deadline for accepting abstracts for the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) is 16 May.

 

GHTC will be in Seattle WA, October 13 – 16, 2016. Refer to the Call for Papers here for details. The abstracts should be 200 words max and additional information for authors is at http://www.ieeeghtc.org/author-central.

 

At GHTC multiple disciplines interact to identify, create and advance technology that benefits the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations of the world and help with improving disaster response. The conference’s focus is research, applied technology, and case studies pertaining to humanitarian technology and its application in the following areas:

  • Energy,
  • Healthcare,
  • Disaster management,
  • Connectivity & communication,
  • Humanitarian challenges & opportunities,
  • Water & sanitation,
  • Agriculture,
  • Education, and
  • Deployment.

Authors must submit an initial abstract for consideration to present in an oral session or interactive poster session; or a proposal for a case study, panel discussion, and workshop. We especially encourage the inclusion of case studies on topics that are appropriate for humanitarian technology. Submission of a full paper is mandatory for technical paper oral presentations and optional for posters and special workshops after initial abstract acceptance. All abstracts should be submitted online following the author guidelines at http://www.ieeeghtc.org/author-central.

 

Submission Schedule:

May 16 Abstract or proposal submission deadline
June 30 Full paper submission deadline
August 15 Final paper submission deadline

 

DIPDMWC 2016

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Dear Students,

The submission is open until June 6, 2016. Please consider submitting your papers to .

****ALL registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for POTENTIAL inclusion to IEEE Xplore.****
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The Third International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications (DIPDMWC2016)

July 06-08, 2016 » Moscow, Russia
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

Website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/dipdmwc2016/

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Dates Open from now until June 6, 2016
Notification of Acceptance 2-4 weeks from the submission date
Camera Ready Submission June 26, 2016
Registration Deadline June 26, 2016
Conference Dates July 6-8, 2016

You are invited to participate in The Third International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications (DIPDMWC2016) that will be held in Moscow, Russia, on July 06-08, 2016. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

DIPDMWC2016 welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, Wireless Communications and related research topics.

SUBMISSION LINK:
http://sdiwc.net/conferen…/dipdmwc2016/openconf/openconf.php

EMAIL:
[email protected]

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